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Poor Marion Jones, of course, is not charged with anything. But the case against her husband (he's not competing in these Olympics but has tested positive four times in recent months for nandrolone) cannot be enhancing her morale or concentration as she goes for five gold medals...
...take it, in any case, that we are now at a clumsy and primitive stage of body-perfecting. Given the mapping of the human genome, given the future of bio-tinkering, I cannot imagine it will be long before the International Olympics Committee faces questions of fascinating and far more complex implication: Forget drugs. Entire Olympic teams might be bio-engineered and compete on their margins of mechanical perfection, like computer-designed Grand Prix cars and racing yachts. Swimmers, for example, engineered with enormous webbed feet and fabulous lung capacity. The new-model C. J. Hunter should be able...
...Secretary-General Kofi Annan shows courageous leadership in advocating humanitarian intervention in countries where innocent civilians are being brutalized [WORLD, Sept. 4]. He rightfully maintains that national sovereignty should not shield ethnic cleansing. Yet the world cannot rely on the military in every crisis. There are instances when disciplined and trained unarmed civilians have performed valuable peacekeeping roles. An international campaign is under way to organize a global nonviolent peace force. The U.N. should support such a force as another resource to call upon when humanitarian intervention is required. MEL DUNCAN St. Paul, Minn...
...human tragedy of the Kursk is obvious, and Western nations have learned that since Russia cannot behave in an open and honest manner when faced with a humanitarian crisis, we would be foolish to expect anything other than a traditional Soviet attitude to political, economic and military issues from the Russian government. PETER G. WILSON Whitburn, Scotland...
Relatively apolitical members of TIME's board--Wyss and Abby Joseph Cohen, head of the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs--are not so sure about that. They cannot suppress a nagging memory: five years or so ago, most economists were forecasting huge federal deficits as far as the eye could see--with as much certainty as they are now predicting giant surpluses for the next decade. Could the current optimism be equally off base...